From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I'm sitting across from the beautifully garbed star and creator of the Mindy Project. Mindy Kaling,

is such a thrill to have you here. Thanks so much you're doing this.

You know, I thank you very much, Ellis, and I have to say, as a writer and a comedian, comedian,

I'm not sure which is the right way to say it, when someone tells me I'm well-dressed,

I take that as a higher compliment than virtually anything else. You could say that I was kind or smart or a strong feminist. These are all, those are all great things to say about a woman. Telling me that I'm well-dressed. I am ashamed to admit is the one that makes me feel the best. Well, I think myself as being the best dressed man in public radio, which is kind of like being the smartest dog in the circus. It's kind of a meaningless sober gay. But let's talk about this show. I have to say in the first season,

the second episode, when you guys are out there at the Mercury Lounge, just right around the corner

from my apartment in New York, it just thrilled me so much because the felt the show

cohered immediately at that point. Oh, well, thank you very much. It's been interesting because the office was an office show,

but this show is stupid about dating. So when people ask me what the show is about, you should as a

businesswoman be able to concisely say, but I've never been able to. It's like it is a dating show about

people who are loosely bonded by their work, but who are all sort of desperately single and want to

form relationships. So it's sort of both of those things. It's kind of a hybrid of two different

kinds of shows. It feels to me like you want to do something different from the office,

and that's a show where people's entire lives aren't defined by this place they work in.

I mean, people have lives outside of the place where they work.

And that felt like, to me, a very conscious decision for you.

The show is a reaction to the office in a lot of ways that people have noticed.

It takes place in New York City.

The characters have disposable income.

It's obviously not a mockumentary.

But, you know, after doing a show that I loved so much and I'm so proud of where

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